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Willie, one of my childhood, heroes

I was born in 49 and when old enough to watch the Yankees, who were on every weekend. Then more teams made the game of the week. I went to Chicago with my dad to visit family and at their home, I was shocked to find the Cubs on all the time. We went to Wrigley for a game and saw Stan Musial hit a grand slam and Ernie Banks a solo. I fell in love with both,
I didn't realize I was seeing two HOF players. Willie was and still is one of the greatest of greats! Gave up the basket catch for more playing time.

Trump Tax Cuts Expiring after 2025

This will be addressed by the next president. Probably the biggest one expiring in my mind is the Qualified Business Income Deduction (QBID). This deduction allows pass through entities to exclude 20% of their profits from tax. Marginal tax rates big. The estate tax exemption amount goes to approximately $13.61 million for individuals and $27.22 for married couples in 2024. This will drop by about 1/2. This affects many more people than you would imagine.

@twenty02 what do you think

Intelligent discussion of what's going on with young men in the U.S.

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Long, but good discussion on the issues facing young men and boys today.

One of the crazy stats from the beginning that sounds superficial but kinda blew me away: on dating apps, women spend most of their time just interested in the top guys. So if you have an app with 50 men and 50 women, all 50 women are going to be focused on the top 4 or 5 guys, with the other 90% of men getting no attention. Women are the anti- @larsIU

Happy Juneteenth!


I started reading this and thought "hey, something written for us to all rally around. Great." Then it turns into a campaign speech (gross), and then ends with this rhetoric:

On Juneteenth, may we celebrate the essence of freedom that galvanized the country, the progress we have made in our Nation, and all that is possible when we march forward together. May we all recommit to redeeming the very soul of America — choosing love over hate, unity over division, and progress over retreat. [Yay! Good stuff!]

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2024, as Juneteenth Day of Observance. I call upon the people of the United States to acknowledge and condemn the history of slavery in our Nation and recognize how the impact of America’s original sin remains. I call on every American to celebrate Juneteenth [weird; you're "calling" on people to "celebrate?" How about "honor" or "acknowledge?"] and recommit to working together to eradicate systemic racism and inequity in our society wherever they find it. [Oh boy. So we have to buy into the anti-racist theory of systemic racism (yes, that's what he's referring to) to buy into Juneteenth? Ugh--this kind of rhetoric, even if you believe it, drives division, not unity. Why not make it a way to celebrate the fact that the nation has advanced, improved on race relations, people who were not slaves fought and died and freed slaves and that that was a good thing?]
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